whip
鞭子,鞭打,鞭笞,皮鞭
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Definitions
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whipped or whipt, whip·ping.
- : to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- : to strike with quick, repeated strokes of something slender and flexible; lash: He impatiently whipped his leg with his riding crop.
- : to urge or force on with, or as with, a lash, rod, etc.
- : to lash or castigate with words.
- : to train or organize forcefully: to whip the team into shape.
- : Informal. to defeat or overcome: to whip the opposition; to whip a bad habit.
- : to hoist or haul by means of a whip.
- : to move quickly and suddenly; pull, jerk, seize, or the like, with a sudden movement: He whipped his gun out of its holster.
- : to fish with rod and line, especially by making repeated casts: I whipped the stream all day and caught nothing.
- : to beat to a froth with an eggbeater, whisk, fork, or other implement in order to mix in air and cause expansion.
- : to overlay or cover with cord, thread, or the like wound about it: to whip the end of a hawser.
Phrases
- whip up
- crack the whip
- lick (whip) into shape
- smart as a whip
- upper (whip) hand
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
When the farmers decided the boys were not working hard enough, they “were beaten with whips and tree branches.”
Today, range is king—the contemporary measurement of choice is how far your whip can go on a single charge.
Lee was whip smart, could be charming when he wanted to and preferred to operate behind the scenes.
Her transformation into a soldier — buying a horse and a saddle and a bridle and a whip — takes up half a stanza.
“I just think she’s been tested on the national stage … and she’s whip smart,” says Caraway in the latest episode of The Carlos Watson Show, hosted by the OZY co-founder and CEO.
Again, I do not know House Majority Whip Scalise or President Obama personally.
Just a week before the start of a new Congress, the new House majority whip is fighting for his political life.
Given how little time they had to whip this project to the finish line, they accomplished a lot.
What he may lack in leadership or due diligence skills, he makes up for in his abilities to whip the media into subservience.
And then you'd whip out your iPhone and pull up that snarky tweet your friend wrote linking to the E!
Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.
And that was he also in kilts, at the age of five, wearing long curls and holding a in his hand.